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Patented out. 15, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISAAO S. BRANDENBURG, OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS, AND HARRY H. IVOGAIWIAN, OF JOHNSVILLE, OHIO.

FERTILIZING-MCHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 413,124, dated October 15, 1889.

Application filed February 9, 1889. Serial No. 299,236. (No model.)

To all whom it mafy concerm Be it known that we, ISAAC S. BRANDEN- BURG and HARRY I-I. WOGAMAN, citizens of the United States, residing, respectively, at

f Peoria, in the county of Peoria and State of Illinois, and at J ohnsville, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fertilizing-ll/Iachines, of which the following 1o is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in means for transporting, cutting, and distributing manure, and is adapted to be attached to the drill-boxes of ordinary sowingmachines.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a plan View. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section on the line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig.

zo 3 represents a cross-section on the line 3 3,

Fig. 1.

l In these drawings, 1 represents an oblong hopper-shaped box for the purpose of holding the manure or fertilizing material, and is z 5 provided at one side with hooks or clamps 2, which may be attached or connected with the drill-box of a sowing machine or apparatus.

The bottom 3 of the manure or fertilizing hopper is divided into sections, as shown in These sections consist of raised portions 4 and depressed portions 5. In the latter are stepped openings 5, in which are set in pairs rotating wheel-shaped cutters 6 6, provided with knives or teeth 7 on their pe- 3 5 ripheries, which cutters rotate in the slots in the depressed portions 5. As the manure or fertilizing material is fed into the depressed portions or cavities 5, the rotating cutters, being so arranged as to turn toward each other .-1,0 and toward the center of the hopper, will attach themselves to the substance within the hopper, and will cause it to be drawn down through the openings or slots aforesaid. This Iaction will bring the fertilizing material into the funnels 9, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. These funnels extend downwardly beneath the bottom of the oblong hopper and may be of any number desired. In the drawings we have shown four; but these may be lessened 5o or increased, as may be preferred in various cases.

The rotating cutters are mounted on longitudinal shafts 10, which extend, preferably, the entire length of the hopper, and which are geared to each other at their outer ends by means of intermeshing cog-wheels 11, and at the other end set and rotating in the wing or flange 12, which forms a part of or isattached to the end of the said hopper. One of said shafts is provided with a large gear-wheel 13, 6o said wheel being adapted to receive power from any suitable source and to communicate it not only to the shafts aforesaid, but to the pinions 14, arranged on either side of said wheel. The pinions 14 are provided with 65 shafts 15, suitably hung in the brackets 16, located upon the end of the hopper, and at their outer ends are formed into bell-cranks, to which are attached the long reciprocating arms 17, which extend inwardly and are con- 7o nected by means of short fingers 1S with the sliding agitators 19. These agitators have projections 20, and are adapted to move in opposite directions by virtue of the connection through the pinions and cog-gearing 75 aforesaid-that is to say, when one agitator is moving forward the other is moving in the opposite direction, the object being to keep the manure or fertilizing material in constant motion, to prevent it from bunching or 8o clogging. As before stated, the driving-wheel 13 may receive motion from any suitable source; but we preferably connect it to the grain-drill wheel.

The hopper is so constructed and arranged as that when not needed it can be easily removed froin the drill-box and as easily attached thereto when required.

l'fVith the cutters described we are enabled to feed material such as manure, corn-cobs, 9o and tobacco-stalks.

Having thus described our invention, the following is what we claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a fertilizing-machine for attachment to a grain-drill, dto., t-he combination of a suitable hopper or receptacle for containing the fertilizing material., having stepped openings throngh the bottom connected with funnels, asshown, and pairs of oppositely-rotatroo ing cutters located in the openings between the hopper and the funnels for cutting the material and feeding' it into .the tunnels, as set forth.v

2. In a tertilizing-machine tor attachment .to a grain-drill, the., the combination ot a hopper constructed substantially as shown and described, the pairs ot oppositely-rotating cutters located in stepped openings in the bottom o't the hopper, and reciprocating agitators Within the hopper tor feeding the material to the cutters.

3. The combination ot the hopper or receptacle provided with stepped openings in the bottom thereof, the tunnels located beneath the openings, the pairs ot oppositely-rotating cutters constructed substantially as shown and described, the reciprocating agitators, and the means tor operating the agitators and the cutters, substantially as and for theI purposes set forth.

4. In a tertilizing-machine, the combination ot an oblong hopper provided with clamps or hooks tor attachment to the grain-drill, stepped openings in the bottom ot said hopper, tunnels located beneath said openings, and mechanism tor feeding the tertilizing material in the direction ot the openings, and pairs ot oppositely-rotating cutters tor torcing the saine into the tunnels.

ISAAC S. BRANDENBURG. HARRY H. VVOGAMAN.

Witnesses:

GEO. M. LANE, ALBERT KERN. 

